Isamu

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by Isamu 2y ago
I worked on this for a while, years ago at Corning. We wrote control software for the vertical furnace that consolidated the glass before it was pulled into fiber. It was running on an rtVAX as I recall. Not Unix.
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Rodney Brooks' Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence(rodneybrooks.com)
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by Isamu 2y ago
Books in Print used to be a book in print. Updated yearly, I used it at the library.
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by Isamu 2y ago
Reputation laundering. A bot farm where every bot has only posted for the same pattern of apps (paid clients) is too easy to detect. So they try to break up the pattern by having bots randomly assigned a different subset of inexpensive apps
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by Isamu 2y ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
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by Isamu 2y ago
They mean references cited in the metadata but not in the actual paper. So it’s “invisible” and can be gamed because some citation trackers rely on the metadata rather than having to parse the paper.
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by Isamu 2y ago
I think you misunderstand me. I mean ONLY the specific idiom “the 20th century” because we’ve just spent more than a century using that and it is unambiguous, it’s clear. Use “the 1700s” and the like for all other cases.
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by Isamu 2y ago
Well yeah, most of the time if I want to be understood I will say “the 1700s” because it is straightforward to connect with familiar dates. We still say “20th century” though because that’s idiomatic.
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by Isamu 2y ago
Honestly at that time I remember getting fed up using a library for the graphics of a simulation I was doing over a weekend. So I just threw out the graphics library and wrote directly to the screen memory. Lots of games did that
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by Isamu 2y ago
What made Texas attractive to crypto mining? Maybe the heyday is over but why Texas?
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by Isamu 2y ago
>“In the Middle Ages, chess was one of the seven skills that a good knight should master,” Where is that attested in writing of the time?
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by Isamu 2y ago
So that’s the same to you? If somebody else has unauthorized access to security cameras, it’s okay because they are for surveillance?
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by Isamu 2y ago
I’m noticing an uptick in HN trolling from newly created accounts.
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by Isamu 2y ago
I think to a university administrator, money is paramount. So they are worried about donors, they are worried about alumni, they are worried about state and federal funds, and they are worried about the attitudes of the parents of prospecti
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by Isamu 2y ago
Well okay, but Facebook is not an outlier. Every outlet has noticed the popularity that comes with telling people what they want to hear. It’s legal to give “opinion” that has no backing evidence, as opposed to journalism, where people reas
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by Isamu 2y ago
The chain reaction was still speculative. Also physics is math, but math is not physics.
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by Isamu 2y ago
I believe the fee is a simple first-order throttling mechanism to tamp down on the easy creation of thousands of developer accounts, as a way for actors to evade developer bans. But also to help with scaling issues. It’s low-effort for Appl
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by Isamu 2y ago
Related, there’s a Unicode block for Ogham. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_(Unicode_block)
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by Isamu 2y ago
Agreed, I think Fuller liked being an idea man, and wasn’t interested in the engineering iteration that is necessary to bring something truly new to market. Maybe most people aren’t interested in that kind of work? It’s a long slog of worki
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by Isamu 2y ago
>but if you bootstrapped from the language source itself you are good No, that’s exactly what Ken Thompson was describing in Trusting Trust. You always have to bootstrap the compiler, but once you do, you use the compiler to compile itse
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by Isamu 2y ago
There was the software “pattern” hype back in the 90’s, people began to think of the word “pattern” as meaning “good”. So there was some discussion of what to call a bad pattern, and people decided they liked “anti-pattern”. So, not the opp
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by Isamu 2y ago
Note the authors are Erik Demaine, his father and his doctoral adviser. Erik was born in 1981. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine
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by Isamu 2y ago
Why? There’s shorter ones.
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by Isamu 2y ago
You forgot to say First Post!
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by Isamu 2y ago
>Components of the Cheyenne Supercomputer Installed Configuration: SGI ICE™ XA. E-Cells: 14 units weighing 1500 lbs. each. E-Racks: 28 units, all water-cooled Nodes: 4,032 dual socket units configured as quad-node blades Processors: 8,06
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by Isamu 2y ago
The Tiangong space station is seen as an important step towards manned moon missions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station
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by Isamu 2y ago
This helps to answer some of the questions surrounding the decline of Disney animation after Walt died. In some ways you could blame the decline on him because he built an organization that depended too much on his judgment and guidance. Th
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by Isamu 2y ago
In the context of rockets, what is important and salient here is reuse, and even if some motors are swapped out, they are still available for refurbishment, rather than destroyed on reentry.
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by Isamu 2y ago
Hey I’d love to hear more, if only you could provide something that backs up your claim.
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The success of old Atlas was partly due to the compactness and high power of hydraulic actuators. There’s a lot of actuators to pack into a humanoid robot and it takes a lot of power to do backflips. I am betting that this one is less power

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